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Do research priorities for mental health actually reflect the goal of fostering well-being?

Do mental health research priorities reflect societal needs? This post explores the landscape of mental health research and introduces an interactive visualization that allows to explore research portfolios of specific countries, funders and organisations.

Wouter van de Klippe + 3 others • 30-03-2022

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Responsible metrics for societal value of scientific research

What does responsible research evaluation look like when it comes to societal value? This blog post provides four practical recommendations.

Laurens Hessels + 3 others • 10-03-2022

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Building knowledge infrastructure to support research assessment reforms: Dispatches from the Dutch Recognition and Rewards Festival 2022

In this blog post we reflect on knowledge infrastructures currently emerging to support organizations that are pursuing research assessment reforms, and call on sociologists of science and research evaluation researchers to study and contribute to these unfolding developments.

Alex Rushforth + 2 others • 23-02-2022

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A first step in quantifying disagreement across science

Disagreement is ubiquitous in science and maybe even necessary for progress. We leverage recent advances in data to develop a method for quantifying disagreement, revealing the complexity of disagreement across science.

Wout Lamers + 6 others • 19-01-2022

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Priority-2030: the New Excellence Initiative from Russia

Dmitry Kochetkov is PhD candidate at CWTS. In this post, he gives an update on Priority-2030, a new excellence initiative in the Russian higher education sector. He also makes some reflections on the role of this experience in the global context of higher education reform.

Dmitry Kochetkov • 17-01-2022

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Make maps of research interactive, detailed and open!

Network maps are essential tools in quantitative research studies. In this blog post I argue for interactive maps that show both overview as well as details, are openly accessible, and based on open data. Such maps add value by providing more information, enhanced transparency and interpretability.

Peter Sjögårde • 06-12-2021

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Multiple-affiliation researchers as bridgebuilders in research systems

Researchers holding part-time positions at different organisations may contribute to the efficiency of inter-organisational collaborations, but what are the drivers underlying these collaborations? We performed an empirical study to explore the role of geographic and institutional proximities.

Alfredo Yegros + 2 others • 09-11-2021

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Studying Marine Social Science with Mixed Methods

Marine social science studies multifaceted relationships between people and oceans, marine and coastal environments. But it is not yet well integrated into ocean science and policy. This blogpost asks how we can use mixed methods to study the way marine social scientists make their research visible.

Judit Varga • 11-10-2021

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The Initiative for Open Abstracts: Celebrating our first anniversary

In this blog post, Ludo Waltman, Bianca Kramer, and David Shotton, co-founders of the Initiative for Open Abstracts, celebrate the first anniversary of the initiative.

Ludo Waltman + 2 others • 06-10-2021

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Do research priorities for mental health actually reflect the goal of fostering well-being?

Responsible metrics for societal value of scientific research

Building knowledge infrastructure to support research assessment reforms: Dispatches from the Dutch Recognition and Rewards Festival 2022

A first step in quantifying disagreement across science

Priority-2030: the New Excellence Initiative from Russia

Make maps of research interactive, detailed and open!

Multiple-affiliation researchers as bridgebuilders in research systems

Studying Marine Social Science with Mixed Methods

The Initiative for Open Abstracts: Celebrating our first anniversary